on behalf of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit over texas' law. what that means for voters in texas and you and the political future of folks like you. >> well, chris, hopefully it means that texans will be able to vote in the way they've been used to voting for many decades now. i was in the texas legislature in 2011 and before that for several years and saw the republican majority not only pass the voter i.d. law but also make it harder to register to vote, to register others to vote, to do mail balloting. so it's been a series of hurdles that they've tried to put in the way to make it harder for texans to vote and these laws disproportionately effect low-income voters and minority voters. they know what they're doing. they're trying to shave off if it's two, three, four, five points. we all know people win a lot of elections in those small margins. that's what they're trying to accomplish. >> judy, the lawsuits are being done under section 2 of the voting rights act, if i understand that correctly. if left standing by shelby county decision the